| Action Plan Reference | Action | Target Date | Lead Agency | Personnel | Fund Source | Progress at February 2001 | Year/s incorporated into operational plan |
| Riparian 1 | Secure a presumption against new conifer plantations on floodplains. Promote regeneration of native floodplain woodland. | Ongoing | FC | FC, FE | |||
| Ensure that action plan objectives are recognised in Indicative Forestry Strategies for the region and take account of the importance of wet and riparian woodland. | Ongoing | LA/ LBAP | LAs, FC, FE, SNH, LBAP | Moray IFS currently out for consultation specifically inlcudes floodplain and riparin woodland. | |||
| Ensure that action plan objectives are integrated with catchment management planning process. | Ongoing | FC | SEPA, LA, LBAP, Rivers Projects | Catchment management planning proces progressing in Dee and Spey. Riparian habitats as a primary focus. | |||
| Ensure that wet/riparian woodland is considered in the development of Forest Plans & Forest Design Plans. | Ongoing | FC | FC, SNH, LA | FC Grant | |||
| Incorporate riparian woodland into workshops for LA planners & road’s dept. | Annual | LA | LAs, NERP | LA | North East Rivers Project Workshop on natural heritage highlighted riparian and wet woodland. | ||
| Promote management to link fragmented riparian & wet woodlands. | Ongoing | FC/ SERAD | FC, SEPA, LA, FE, NERP, SLF, SWT, SAC, FWAG, DDSFB, SNH | FC, SERAD, NERP, SNH | |||
| Ensure wet/riparian woodland is considered in fisheries management planning. | Ongoing | DSFB | DSFB | Dee habitat enhancement project primarily considering riparian habitats is progressing. Similar initaitives begin explored on the Deveron and Ythan. | |||
| Riparian 2 | Promote high percentage/complete broadleaved planting for riparian and floodplain woodland schemes undertaken as part of the Grampian Forest Challenge Fund. | Ongoing | FC | FC, LA, Grampian Forest | FC | ||
| Ensure that wet/riparian woodland is considered for Woodland Improvement Grants (WIG) & Farm Woodland Premium Scheme (FWPS). | Ongoing | FC | FC, FWAG, SAC, SERAD | FC, SERAD | Included in comments on review of WGS, FWPS | ||
| Promote flexibility to grant conditions for FWPS to make the scheme accessible to more farmers (i.e. reduce minimum width of planting along water courses from 15m to 10m). | Ongoing | FC | FC, SERAD | FC, SERAD | Inlcuded in comments on review of WGS, FWPS | ||
| Encourage the uptake of management options for semi-natural woodland in the Rural Stewardship Scheme (RSS). | 2001-ongoing | LBAP Farmland working group | SERAD, FWAG, SAC, NFUS, SLF | SERAD | |||
| Encourage the set up of a local grant aid initiative to support management and creation of small-scale riparian woodland (Dee River Enhancement Project etc) | 2001 for 3 years | DSFB | LA, NERP, DDSFB, SNH, FWAG, DevDSFB | SNH, HLF, EU Funds, DDSFB | North East Rivers HLF bid progressing | ||
| Riparian 3 | With Landowners consent promote appropriate statutory and non-statutory designation of sites and ensure that identified Local Wildlife Sites are incorporated into the planning system | Ongoing | SNH, SWT, LA | SNH, SWT, LA, RSPB, Moray area sub-group | SNH, SWT | Moray Biodiversity Group pregressing with assessment of surveyed wildlife sites. | |
| Support proposals for linking up wet/ riparian woodland and expanding areas of floodplain woodland outlined in the Moray FE Strategic Plan and other FE documents. | Ongoing | FE | FE, FC, SNH, LA, SEPA | FE | |||
| Review and resolve gaps in legislation and felling regulations to prevent loss of small stands of riparian trees. | Ongoing | FC, SNH | FC, SEPA, SNH, LA | FC | |||
| Riparian 4 | Identify areas where abstraction & interaction with riparian/ wet woodland is an issue. | Ongoing | SEPA | SEPA, LA, NOSWA | |||
| Riparian 5 | Ensure integration of objectives and management statements with relevant Species and Habitat Action Plans. | Ongoing | LBAP | LBAP | LBAP | ||
| Riparian 6 | Review survey information at large scale resolution. | 2001 | NESBReC | NESBReC, GW, DSFB, SEPA, FE, SWT, MLURI, BCT, LA Roads Department | LA, SNH, NESBReC | ||
| Carry out survey at finer detail resolution. Either i) aerial high speed video OR ii) Millennium aerial photo set. | 2001 | MULURI | HLF | ||||
| Riparian 7 | Distribute standard site recording form for wet/riparian woodland. Collate and act on information gathered. | 2001 ongoing | NESBReC | All working group partners, SWT, landowners, BCT, FE | LA, NESBReC | NESBReC developing standard recording cards for distribution. | |
| Identify priority sites for creation, management & expansion. | Ongoing | LBAP, NENW | SEPA, DSFB, NENW, FC, FWAG, SAC, DDSFB, BCT, DevDSFB | Project Officer’s time. | |||
| Identify priority sites for ecological engineering. | 2001 | SEPA | SEPA, Consultants, NOSWA | SEPA | |||
| Riparian 8 | Review current approaches to site assessment. | Dec-01 | Joint | Grampian Forest, FE, FWAG, SAC, Ugie & Ythan Rivers Projects, DDSFB, SEPA (HEI), DevDSFB, NERP | SNH | ||
| Restore natural drainage, promote in management guidelines and demonstration projects. | 2001 Onward | Project Specific | GF, FE, FWAG, SAC, Ugie and Ythan Projects, landowners, NERP | SNH, SEPA, NERP | |||
| Establish 3 demonstration sites highlighting approaches to habitat creation and promote with guidance. | 2005 | Separate lead on each catchment | Ythan, FWAG, SAC, DDSFB, NERP | SEPA(HEI), NERP | |||
| Riparian 9 | Prepare and implement management plans for wet/riparian woodland sites | Ongoing | FC & SERAD | NENW, FC, SERAD, FWAG, SAC, Landowners, NOSWA, BCT | WGS-FC, RSS-SERAD | North East Rivers Project demonstrsation sites (Tarland etc) | |
| Riparian 10 | Produce list of appropriate native plant and tree species for Northeast & local plant suppliers, to help promote the use of local provenance stock for new planting | 2001 | NENW | FC, NENW, LA, FWAG, SAC | NERP, LA, FC | ||
| Set up a project with local tree nurseries to grow and distribute local provenance riparian stock to demonstration projects and other identified sites. | 2000 onwards | Forvie Tree Nursery | Nurseries: Forvie, Drum, Aberlour. All Catchments. | NERP | Project established, native trees planted in 10 riparian planting schemes during 2000-01 | ||
| Riparian 11 | Establish 3 demonstration sites on control of invasive non-natives. | 2005 | LAs | NENW, Don Mouth LNR, Deveron DSFB, DDSFB | ACP, SEPA (HEI) | ||
| Establish 1 demonstration site on grazing. | 2005 | SNH, FE Moray | SNH | ||||
| Riparian 12 | Establish 3 demonstration sites on alternative civil engineering strategies. | 2005 | LA | NERP, LA flood prevention teams, Ythan, NOSWA | SEPA (HEI), NERP | ||
| Establish 3 demonstration sites on approaches to restoration after inappropriate conifer plantations. | 2005 | Joint | FE, FWAG, SAC, NENW, Landowners, DDSFB, BCT, DevDSFB | FC, DDSFB, SNH | |||
| Establish a demonstration site highlighting Forest Habitat Network principles. This can be achieved through Forest Plans or Forest Design Plans. | 2005 | FE | FE, NTS, Landowners | ||||
| Riparian 13 | Identify sites where fly-tipping is a problem and review procedures to reduce/ prevent problem of fly-tipping. | Ongoing | LA | LA, SEPA | LAs | ||
| Clearance of material from 5 of these identified sites per year. | 2005 | LA Environ-mental Health | Local Authority; Landowner, Local Community | LA, SEPA | |||
| Run education projects to promote reduction in fly-tipping. | Ongoing | LA | LA, Clean and Green Aberdeen | LA | |||
| Riparian 14 | Establish database of relevant government agencies, NGOs, research Institutes. | Ongoing | NESBReC, LBAP | LBAP, NERP, NESBReC | |||
| Riparian 15 | Distribute SNW booklet on riparian woodlands to 150 riparian owners. | 2003 | NENW | NENW | EU | Done | |
| Encourage educational use and access at 1 appropriate site per year, paying due regard to the hazards of such waterside locations | 2005 | Joint | NTS, FE, FC, SWT, Landowners, DevDSFB | WGS-FC | |||
| Produce 3 practical guidance notes for wet/ riparian woodland managers on woodland creation, management & expansion experience. | 2005 | NENW | FC, GF, FE; FWAG, NERP, NENW, DDSFB | LA, NERP | |||
| Riparian 16 | Ensure that all data collected for this plan is held at the North East Scotland Biological Records Centre | Ongoing | NESBReC | LBAP, NESBReC | Ongoing | ||
| Riparian 17 | Monitor and report targets achieved for creation, management and expansion of wet/riparian woodland every year and in detail every five years | Yearly from 00 | LBAP | All working group members, LBAP, NESBReC | |||
| Report target achievements for associated species. | Yearly from 00 | LBAP | LBAP Co-ordinator | ||||
| Riparian 18 | Identify & promote future research topics in this field. | Yearly | SNH | All | |||
| Riparian 19 | Encourage management by copicing, explore the use of willow for soft landscaping projects and for bio-engineering erosion control. | Set up cost to initiate self financing project. | Highland birch woods, GW, FE, NENW | HLF |